What Love Is via How to Train Your Dragon

To me, the most beautiful virtues are humility and selflessness. In watching my favorite movie, How to Train Your Dragon, I realize that it is the characters’ incredible self-denial that keeps me coming back to them time and time again. In the music videos I create and in the stories I make of them, it is these virtues I want to express, because it is this character that forms the foundation of all other beauties: kindness, understanding, and love.

I invite you to read of the excellency of what true love is, via Paul, and to see how that is done, via How to Train Your Dragon:

I Corinthians 13:1 If I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but do not have love, I have become a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. 2 If I have the gift of prophecy, and know all mysteries and all knowledge; and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing. 3 And if I give all my possessions to feed the poor, and if I surrender my body to be burned, but do not have love, it profits me nothing.

4 Love is patient, love is kind and is not jealous; love does not brag and is not arrogant, 5 does not act unbecomingly; it does not seek its own, is not provoked, does not take into account a wrong suffered,6 does not rejoice in unrighteousness, but rejoices with the truth; 7 bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.

8 Love never fails; but if there are gifts of prophecy, they will be done away; if there are tongues, they will cease; if there is knowledge, it will be done away. 9 For we know in part and we prophesy in part; 10 but when the perfect comes, the partial will be done away. 11 When I was a child, I used to speak like a child, think like a child, reason like a child; when I became a man, I did away with childish things. 12 For now we see in a mirror dimly, but then face to face; now I know in part, but then I will know fully just as I also have been fully known. 13 But now faith, hope, love, abide these three; but the greatest of these is love.

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i love watching how to train your dragon and it reminds of some verses of the Bible too 🙂 1 Corinthians is one of the books that explains the most important character: love. Mostly God’s love towards us which is agape but also the loves that are mentioned in how to train your dragon like storge (family) and phileo (brotherly). Hiccup and Toothless’s friendship is a great example of true phileo love because both are willing to give each other’s lives for each other “Greater Love hath no man than this, that someone lays down his life for his friends” John 15:13
Keep up you passion for Jesus Christ, it makes me glad to see your fire for Him 🙂

Definitely an insightful thought there. The love we find among our families and friends are all images of Christ’s immense love for us, and the fierce, selfless love we find in HTTYD is a beautiful image of a true brothers’ love. Thank you for the encouragement and comment!